Action sought against officials who filed ‘false affidavits’ in land case

TNN | Nov 21, 2017, 00:39 IST

Madurai: A public interest litigation has been filed before the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking action against former and present collector and police officials of Madurai district alleging that they had filed false affidavits before the court on a land issue.

One K G Sakthimai from Madurai has filed the case against former collectors U Sagayam and L Subramanian, present collector K Veera Raghava Rao, additional personal assistant to collector (lands), Madurai south tahsildar, former SP of Madurai Vijendra Bidari and district crime branch inspector (land graphic) Muthupandi.

According to her, a group of people sought land for construction of houses from the district authorities. As they did not consider it, a case was filed at the high court bench in Madurai. The court on September 8 2011 directed to consider the request in eight months.

However, authorities failed to obey the court order, and a contempt was filed before the court. When the contempt was pending, Sagayam on January 26, 2012 issued pattas to 17 people by assigning a land in Nilaiyur, based on which the contempt was disposed.

Later, when the people given pattas went to construct houses in the said place in Nilaiyur, another group of people objected to it. The issue was taken to Thirunagar police who in turn claimed that the land allotted to them was already given to SC people.

A complaint was given to the district crime branch police who registered a case. Then SP instructed his subordinates not to proceed on the complaint as his wife was working as project officer in the district.

This led to filing of another case in the high court bench, during which the officials filed a false counter. When it was taken to the notice of the court, it ordered action against those who filed false versions before the court. But, there was no action on it.